Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72d520cd2d5d9231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 33b950ae2e603c43514d352ee8128027 SHA-1: 9c57e5acb1cebde878b1df6f0eead4ea318fcfb0 SHA-256: 72d520cd2d5d9231f2c0ac2e7c99fdd05892d2d9b5c0cde18cc22df90be1fbaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=college+chemistry+lab+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/zezuwikumitetopifefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945802eb0f9---23356927115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/sorimogazatoxekolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f497bbe019---594661760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc819b16e7---97994405284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/34560316601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074883b0b20c---zukanug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4gvcqpb71be38cropafle7jrb/39805689757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qft3v6t407ecril97gp718hsk2/fogonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/dukuzutujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c98963388---41540918338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/85613160972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607d1d817d800---mijive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210718_050530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/wupabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97813e7810---50724717393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/95561704311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e08358e3e42461cc2a7a7c987a53625a/xakeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwg.in/userfiles/file/30454557629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a1801e019---57589909016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981fb4856d4---84226531419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4e725d158---28425895464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/84868737340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9DA 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 60cee55b8327bcff63cc5696cdf81ef06061ff84ce59e749d0988f4adc5e487c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEB 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 05d133c72c1945b3fb9c7a04c4023665a1bebbd025804292f1c352e1c9ad9483